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'The Hunger Games' Cast Covers 'The Hollywood Reporter'

Posted on February 2, 2012 - 9:06am by loretta

It's almost here!!! The highly anticipated Hunger Games!! With the release date of film rapidly approaching, the stars of the movie, Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson are starting to make the promotional rounds of Hollywood.

Lionsgate Films president Joe Drake talked to The Hollywood Reporter about the films projected success, saying, "After the trailer launched Nov. 14, we had 8 million views in the first 24 hours. We were the number one Twitter trend on the planet. Since then, the book sales have jumped 7.5 million copies. That kind of data gives us enormous confidence."

Jennifer Lawrence

Although Hunger Games fans new all along that the film will be a hit, actress Jennifer Lawrence was hesitant to take the role of Katniss for fear of ending up in the center of a "pop culture tornado" like Kristen Stewart with the Twilight series. Lawrence said, "It was the middle of the night in England, and I was in bed when I got the call. And I was so in love with the books and the script, and suddenly it was right in my face -- and the size of the decision was terrifying. I called my mom and she called me a hypocrite, because when I was doing indie movies and everyone was asking why I didn't do studio movies, I said, 'The size of the movie doesn't matter.' And she said, 'Here's a movie you love and you were thinking of turning it down because of its size.' I thought, 'I don't want to miss out because I'm scared. Me being scared, I never want that to stop me from doing something.' But I knew in my heart that I wanted it -- it was about working out all the fears."

Hunger Games Cast

Playing the role of Katniss hasn't been all fun and games for the young star. At one point, Lawrence suffered an injury that almost halted filming. "I had to do 10 'wall runs,' where you run at the wall as hard as you can to get traction. I ran at it and my foot didn't go up, so I caught the wall with my stomach. My trainer thought I had burst my spleen. I had to get a CAT scan and go into a tube where they put this fiery liquid in your body." Luckily her training from her previous movie kept her in good enough shape that she didn't get injured. "I was still pretty bulked up from X-Men: First Class. So a lot of the training was getting muscle back, heightening the muscles without building them. I loved the archery -- well, I have a love-hate relationship with it." Once all the testing was done, Lawrence learned that nothing was broken, only bruised and filming continued.

THR Cover Hunger Games